| Show HOME GYMNASIUM FOR WOMEN I ITo To Preserve Health Strength and F Figure By PAULINE FURLONG F 19 JI J S I H l- l S W N t E A A. Ne New Series of d Lessens Showing How J Ey Every ry Woman May Have an an In Inexpensively Equipped pp d G Gym Cym Gymnasium m- m S in Her Own Home and T Teaching ching Games and andExer Exer Exercises is Which Promote Promo e Excellent nt Physical Con Con- S NO 2 20 BOY O BOWLING SE As this week js Is 8 to o be devoted principally to my slender readers who are re all writing me that they feel qu quite Ite neglected owing to the fact tact that I 1 give so ao much time and space to the obese on ones s I 1 am today showing an another another another an- an other good exercise for the chest a arms and bust When I 1 explain to you all aU hf the about bodY this S but ex exercise the arms you and will UDDer find that Darts it are n really most m affects benefited n nearly by bv all It It parts I tile ln So often In the past pasi- pasi I have stated il that any exercises which cause you to o throw the tie arms arps from the front of I the body to the back and th then n re return re- re turn urn them to the front again are the best ones for broadening the narrow hest and filling in the hollows of the neck I am therefore showing you an entirely new one today and it is ts the bowling lunge and shows one of ot the many positions Use used J in the healthful and strenuous game of ot bowling THE BOWLING EXERCISE To n this exercise take your position with the tile heels together and the knees perfectly straight Bend the body pOdy forward from the waist line let the arms arras arms hang perfectly straight and make a scoop of ot t the e hands by interlacing interlacing inter inter- lacing the fingers as though you youw w were were re holding a ball J From rom the starting position thrust the right leg back backas as f far r as you can and hd bend the left leg at the knee Separate the fingers and throw the arms fa far back to the right side without with with- put out moving the feet teet and as you do this thie raise the body until you are only sll slightly Uy stooped t This is the position you would woul assume if you were throwIng throwing throw throw- ing the ball at this moment Thelast Thelast The last movement in this exercise is illustrated Keep the right leg as it was In jn the second position that position that is ia perfectly straight and the left leCt leg the same Bring the body around with a sharp twist as a brace or support rt while you supposedly throw the ball with th the right Assume the tint first position and repeat the exercise at least ten times Hold all of the muscles tense and p put t your mind on the movement nt Imagine you are really throwing a a. very vezy heavy ball balland and nd your position will wUI be the correct on one one- This exercise stretches the legs muscles i in th the sides ldes and affects the he waist hips shoulders upper arms and cheste hes It II is a valuable one E for tor developing the bust The he woman who Is realI thin who I is under the normal weight needs a a system of ot health culture quite as am I badly BS is h her r sto stout lt sister and the reason reason rea rea- son I give so much time to the latter latte is because she he is in itt the large laige ma ma- Emaciation Is a a. pathological state even dv v n Ii as is obesity The latter perhaps per per- haps Imps IS s more generally acknowledged as a disfiguring condition and ye who ho could call th the painfully thin thit w woman man really beautiful Therefore S excessive thinness like hIre excessive fatness fat tat fatness ness must be recognized as neither r healthy n normal nor beautiful There are thin Women who do ao not need leed to be told toli that their extreme thinness is not Hot beautiful and I 1 have received receIve map mapy- mapy hundreds of of letters letter from women asking how to develop ali and build up the body 1 want to encourage encourage en en- en- en cop courage rage my mir thin readers by stating that they wIll have a a. much easier time in th their thir lr efforts to develop and make ov over r helm theil fIgures s than my stout ones ns Tomorrow I will explain and illustrate illustrate illus illus- an exercise for developing the lower ch chest t st I LETTERS FROM THE TELEGRAM I READERS S FOLLOWING MISS FURLONGS FURLONG'S LESSONS I MRS JACK i V y What is the I cause aulle of ot my face tace always being so 80 red I and flushed Is it t caused by too j nuch blo blood d It is not caused by hy too much blood but by a sluggish cop condition and poor circulation of ot the Mood blood Exercises which affect the lower abdominal muscles and those of ot the legs will draw the excess blood from the head where it Is congested MRS L. L T T. 3 J 1 writes What c causes causes uses pimples and eruptions on the back of ot my my neck Pimples on any part of the body I are the result of ot poor circulation and digestive disturbances caused by constipation con con- and improper diet They con I are usually the result of ot over n g gence genc in rich greasy t foods pastries sweets s and highly seasoned foods sT T The he first step seep step in their removal is p proper roper diet and a few weeks' weeks intelligent intelligent intelli intelli- g gi gent ent eating will show show a a. wonderful i improvement Eat Dat light easily di digested digested di- di g ested foods food green vegetables and l laxative fruits lean meats and poul poul- t tD tr try ry A sweets of all aU kinds D Drink rink quantities of ot w water ter and take f fresh resh outdoor exercise every day Do Donot i inot not n Gt allow constipation to exist for tor I i if f you do you will never be rid of ot p pimples If It you open the pimples u use se needle a-needle or a previously previous previous- l ly Iy y dipped in hot water Press out the he t puss with th te e fingers not the n nails ails covered with pieces of ot cotton w wet et with peroxide of ot hydrogen T Touch the spots with peroxide after o opening pening pimples MRS E E. M M. K IC writes What c causes auses cold hands and ridges on my n nails nails' ails Poor circulation causes cold hands A All AU lt of ot the exercises will improve this c condition n n. n Ridges on the nails come comer I fr from om extreme nervousness arid and acidity a I FROM A PHYSICIAN I Of Ot the many the many testimonials I r am re receiving re- re c each day in my mall mail one onee e Ci ll pleased me toda today coming a as s it did from a well weil known doctor and and s s It reads reads as follows I I feel sure that from the the many letters letters' l ou receive from your grateful grate grate- f ful ul readers and followers who have ha adopted a your our very original course of ot home so carefully deI de described de de- s scribed and illustrated in the I generous gen gen- 1 erous rous e columns of ot your paper that it must give you great pleasure the pleasure the I kind unexcelled by anything thing else in I life life the doing good fo for others Personally I have come in contact con con- tact with several persons who will willever ever have cause to thank you all an their lives the majority of ot whom could not afford th the expense attached to a special private course of in physical culture as taught taugh t in institutions and correspondence courses s. s By Bythe the introduction of ot simplicity sim aim of ot execution and the avoid avoid- ance anco of and technical terms describing as you do each and every form orm in plain understandable lan Ian guage you have brought your system tam tem within the reach of ot all classes o of ot f people even those of tender years years- I may add the middle and old age as asI asI asI I am over eighty After a failure for tor a great many years jeara to even reach my nose to wipe it by following your course I have haver r rp r eved all the stiffness from the elbow By practicing the leg circling you jou ou SQ so carefully illustrated and de described described de- de scribed I can now now reach my nose with my knee without the risk of falling to the floor One Ope One of my patients a young lady ady of twenty y years ars very slender and mall frail who with intestinal trouble and at times attacks of of ot melancholy at m my suggestion took up your course lust just a little over a month ago go and still continues it In that short space of ot time a complete change for tor the better has come over her and she looks and feels like Uke a new girl pirl an and promises to write to you very soon if you will wUl not publish her name in the paper DR EDWIN T T. 0 O Specialist |
